Church Bus Headed to Lexington Area Crashes

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) - A bus carrying a church youth groupfrom Tennessee collided with a tractor trailer and a passenger carMonday on Interstate 65, leaving several people injured and closinga section of the road, police said.

The passengers on the bus ranged in age from 8 to their earlyteens, Kentucky State Police said. Northbound I-65 was closed nearmile marker 13, south of Bowling Green.

State police said that none of the injuries required hospitaltreatment, and that the children would be taken to Living HopeBaptist Church in Bowling Green, about 60 miles north of Nashville,Tenn.

The children were part of a youth group from First BaptistChurch in the Nashville suburb of Smyrna, Tenn., churchadministrator Nathaniel Hale said.

Hale said he was not aware of any injuries among those on thebus.

The bus was traveling to the Lexington suburb of Georgetown fora weeklong church camp at Georgetown College, Hale said.

"Everybody is perfectly fine, and we're figuring outarrangements on getting them to camp," Hale said.

The church used a charter bus for the trip and did not own thevehicle, Hale said. The operator of the bus, Smyrna Motorcoach,didn't immediately respond to a call seeking comment Monday.

The bus crash is the second in less than a month insouth-central Kentucky. A tour bus crashed on June 25 when a driverapparently began to doze and ran off the road.

Two people were killed and 64 injured when the bus struck anoverpass on I-65 north of Bowling Green.

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